Awards and recognition received after obtaining PhD

• Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Fellow 2024
• Fellow of the American Mathematical Society 2020
• Philip Leverhulme Prize in Mathematics and Statistics 2014
• European Prize in Combinatorics 2011
• Neuron Prize for young mathematicians given by Karel Janecek Foundation 2010
• Bernard Bolzano Endowment Fund Award 2007
• Prize of the Czech Mathematical Society for young mathematicians 2006

Awards during university studies

• Carolinum Association Award 2004, an award of the Association of Graduates and Friends of Charles University Carolinum
• Best Alumni Award 2002 given by the Czech Ministry of Education for MSc students
• Bolzano Award 2002, Charles University

Best student paper awards

• Best Student Paper Award at 9th Scandinavian Workshop on Algorithm Theory (SWAT'04)
• EATCS Best Student Paper Award at 29th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations in Computer Science 2004 (MFCS'04) (one of two awarded papers)
• EATCS Best Student Paper Award at 27th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations in Computer Science 2002 (MFCS'02) (one of two awarded papers)

University student competitions

• member of the champion team at the Central European Regional Contest of the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest 2000
• member of the 2nd place team at the Central European Regional Contest of the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest 2001
• the bronze medal (for the 11th and 14th place, respectively) at the World Finals of the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest 2000 and at the World Finals of the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest 2001
• the first prize at Student scientific competition 2001 held in Opava, Czech Republic, in Section Theoretical Computer Science for a study on mixed hypergraphs
• the first prize at the International Competition in Mathematics for University Students 1998, Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria

Secondary school attendance

• the winner (highest score) of the International Olympiad in Informatics 1996, Veszprem, Hungary
• the second highest score and the gold medal at the Central European Olympiad in Informatics 1995, Szeged, Hungary
• the second prize (silver medal) at the International Physics Olympiad 1996, Oslo, Norway
• the winner of the national olympiad in informatics 1996 and the national programming championship 1996
• Jaroslav Heyrovsky Foundation Award 1996
• honorable mention of the Ministry of Education of Czech Republic